Sometimes factual analysis and expert advice is released separately from the policy recommendations which are drawn from it.
The US Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation said in its decision that determining the severity and timing of the boxer's rotator-cuff injury could require "significant factual, and possibly expert, discovery".
On the other hand, a factual observation based on expert knowledge and skill is something you can usually learn from and improve your skills by if you're prepared to listen to the core truths being expressed.
Digital investigators, particularly in criminal investigations, have to ensure that conclusions are based upon factual evidence and their own expert knowledge.
In recent interviews, Murli Dhar Rao, the group's organizing secretary, and Mahesh Sharma, a member of Parliament who is on the group's central steering committee, made a series of factual assertions that India's experts on iodine deficiency disorders called baseless and unscientific.
These questions were posed to elicit factual information about dementia that experts considered to be essential to understanding the condition among individuals with varying education, understanding, or experience.
The prosecution hinged on a confession riddled with factual errors and a Satanic cult expert with a mail-order degree.
And to that end, Judge Walker's 136-page opinion lays a rich factual record, with extensive quotation of expert testimony from the lengthy trial.
Practitioners are under an obligation as expert witnesses to provide factual accounts of digital scenarios, which must be underpinned by robust knowledge and evidential findings.
Grieve said today that after the original pathologist, Dr Freddy Patel, provided a second statement about his findings, "the factual basis on which the other experts had given their opinions about the cause of death was seriously undermined".
